{"data":{"id":"us/43-cfr-3137.64","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"43 CFR 3137.64","heading":"As a unit operator, what must I do to prevent or compensate for drainage?","body":"You must prevent uncompensated drainage of oil and gas from unit land by wells on land not subject to the unit agreement. Permissible means of satisfying the obligation include—\n(a) Drilling a protective well if it is economically feasible. For this subpart, economically feasible means producing a sufficient quantity of oil or gas from a protective well in the unit for a reasonable profit above the cost of drilling, completing and operating the protective well;\n(b) Paying compensatory royalty;\n(c) Forming other agreements, or modifying existing agreements, that allow the tracts committed to the unit agreement to share in production after the effective date of the new or modified agreement; or\n(d) BLM may require additional measures to prevent uncompensated drainage.","path":["Title 43—Public Lands: Interior","Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Public Lands","CHAPTER II—BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR","SUBCHAPTER C—MINERALS MANAGEMENT (3000)","PART 3130—OIL AND GAS LEASING: NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE, ALASKA","Subpart 3137—Unitization Agreements—National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-43.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:15Z","sha256":"9dd504750f65099429f3c9ddf2d9e8da4803b604fb9dbbb74ca6efa440d8d5a1","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/43-cfr-3137.63","next":"us/43-cfr-3137.70"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}